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They believed that increasing the money supply would

cause inflation. Inflation, in turn, would result in rising prices. Higher

prices for crops would help farmers pay back the money that they had

borrowed to improve their farms.

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Q: Why did some people in the 1890s think that going off the gold standard would cause inflation?
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